This is of course inspired from that “AI entrepreneur” douchebag that spent $745 to commission a treat printer to print out a shitty and soulless whitewashed version of Princess Mononoke and assigned himself that title the way that putting a quarter in a gumball machine makes someone a candy entrepreneur.

I really don’t have a good answer. Anyone else?

  • P1d40n3 [he/him]English
    12•8 months ago

    I think it has a lot to do with how Hollywood looks down on animation. Sure, they like it for kids, but they don’t respect it for ‘serious’ films.

    Same thing with SciFi, and same with Fantasy. LotR won zero Oscars, lol.

    EDIT:

    To be clear, I don’t think people what that garbage at al. Look at how poorly the Disney remakes did.

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]English
      14•8 months ago

      LotR won zero Oscars

      I don’t mean to disagree with your main point, but LotR famously won an enormous number of Oscars. “The Return of the King holds the record for most Oscars with eleven alongside Titanic and Ben-Hur.” They’re some of the most awarded films in the history of the Academy Awards.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]OPEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      Look at how poorly the Disney remakes did.

      I assumed they were profitable enough to keep churning them out.

    • AernaLingus [any]English
      6•8 months ago

      Didn’t Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast clear $1 billion? Idk about the others (or what others there even are, for that matter)

      edit: to clarify, I’m talking about the live action movies

      • P1d40n3 [he/him]English
        2•8 months ago

        My own understanding (that I refuse to research, I am lazy) is that the live action ones did numbers in China, where they aren’t sick of CGI-fests that dominate modern Hollywood films